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Saturday, 10th December

We want to help anyone that has been written off, through injury, through lack of self-confidence or just doesn’t believe they can be great again.

We want to prove that we can get life-changing results each and every day.

We want to prove that exercise is the best medicine for physical and mental health.

We want us and our members to get to 90 years of age and have no regrets.

We want to stay committed life-long learners and pass that knowledge onto you all each and every day.

Caring about our members is even more important than training them.

We want to make a massively positive impact on our members lives and over-deliver every session.

We want everyone we train to say in 40 years time thanks for showing us the right way to do it.

Our greatest achievement will be to keep our members active for a lifetime.

We want to get up everyday early feeling excited we can change lives.

Show our appreciation and gratitude we have for everyone every day.

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Monday, 5th December

Which part of your brain are you going to let win this week?

One side will say “today will be the a great day to improve, to not look back and to do all those things that will do me good”.

The other side will say “leave it it’s christmas, you have done ok this year so give in, eat what you want, don’t exercise and start your holiday now, after all everyone else is”!

Do you remember when you used to tell yourself that this time would be different? How strong is that motivation right now? I know many of you are very happy with your progress, but none of us are perfect so what more can we give to finish the year off strong?

We all need a daily “word with ourselves”. If we don’t, its inevitable we will start the long drag back to where we used to be.

If we don’t have a positive chat with ourselves, then it’s easy to give up, easy to become untrained again, our muscles will become unresponsive, our minds more acceptant of becoming lazier, we can tell ourselves different stories that being inactive is okay because “that’s what everyone does”.

Exercise is a lifetime thing we need in our lives full stop, we need to constantly work on it.

Eating healthy makes us not only perform physically better, its makes us feel better, think better and looks after our long term health.

Progress starts and ends with our minds and what we tell ourselves each and every day.

Talk to ourselves positively, tell ourselves we will handle all the challenges life throws at us, and actively realise that we have to work on ourselves daily makes sure we never take our health and feeling good for granted, we always look to get better and we always fight off the negative part of our brains which is always fighting to win every day.

We all have the power to keep the positive side in charge to make sure we stay happier, healthier, keep growing and become more fulfilled in life.

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Wednesday, November 23rd

We always talk about the mind side of what we do in the gym, and how valuable it is to get your mind clear, and strengthen it.

 

You cannot be successful long term with your health and fitness programme without trying to grow mentally along the way.

 

Unfortunately, many people say, i can’t exercise until i get my mind right. You may be waiting a very long time, because that moment can take a while to show up and we don’t often recognise it when it does.

 

Exercise helps strongly to get your mind clear, to get it stronger and finally get that long lost self-confidence back.

 

Don’t think you are a one off too if you are struggling mentally to adjust to getting fit. Being healthy takes many every day adjustments before it finally gets like second nature. You don’t do it in one session, a week, or a month, its a process of reinforcing every day positive habits until they stick.

 

Our kids go to school everyday to get fed positive lessons in educational terms and  in life.

 

When we leave school, lots of those lessons are forgotten, this is why we need to “re-programe” ourselves to perform better, and stick with our ever evolving plans to improve our health and indeed life in general.

 

Attempting to get fit and healthy in a positive, supportive environment is absolutely vital for your long term success.

 

Leaving someone on a treadmill, showing the operation of one or two machines, then forgetting about them is a disastrous way to start a gym, and one which ensures the member will never engage with a gym as they are never shown properly, and OFTEN enough for the idea of exercise to stick.

 

We are not machines or robots, we have to be prepared mentally for the fitness journey ahead, accept we are on a personal growth journey too, and react positively to the many challenges that come when we are trying to get fit and healthy.

 

This is why support from your gym is vital at all times to get you through the ups and downs that will surely come once the novelty wears off after the first couple of times.

 

Exercise and eating healthy not only sets you off not only on a physical improvement journey but one of feeling better mentally, and seeing life in a much more positive way.

Twitt
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Thursday, 9th November

Once we realised the sun did come up again after President Trump’s win, we start to realise that relying on an election result, doesn’t change a whole lot in our immediate lives. Never rely on one person or organisation to tell you what’s possible and what’s not. History backs us up on this time after time.

No government goes out of their way to help us, and we realise the candidates have big flaws just like the rest of us.

The old saying that 90% of what we worry about never happens, and the other 10% we can’t do nothing about anyway, has never been more true.

The UK general election, Brexit, US election, sports protests on human rights in the states (whatever your views) has shown that the public has been in protest mode for some time, and most are not willing to accept what the establishment has dished out for the last 40 years or more.

I hear more and more of people who aren’t willing to accept frozen food in chain restaurants, going to a gym and nobody ever helping you, management in the workplace not appreciating your efforts and opinion, there is strong evidence on more people in Wales launching their own business, some of you launched your own charity out of nothing, helped thousands and counting, because the system wouldn’t help you (Active for Autism-Tom Shaw) etc.

When my father started our gym in 1957, everyone thought he was mad, some doctors for years even claimed weight training was dangerous. Making your own path where nobody has gone before is risky and tests your self-belief to the limit, many will even laugh at you, but your have to follow your heart and passion, and see it through knowing deep down you are doing it for the right reasons, and you are aiming to creating an overwhelmingly positive impact in people’s lives.

Things are changing fast and i commend many of you on your independence of thought and self-belief that you can succeed and never accept the status quo any more. Sometimes, being a non-conformist is amazing because it creates breakthrough change that nobody thought possible apart from YOU.

When you are feeling rebellion, taking control of your health will transform you to a whole new level, help you attain amazing life long dreams in your life, and develop the sustainable energy and drive to create a new history for yourself.

What makes a far impact in our lives is our opportunity to change our own lives for the better, no government can take that away. If you aren’t feeling well physically, and struggling mentally as a result, then starting cautiously on a health and fitness programme will become one of your greatest achievements.

Exercise is like a journey that has ups and downs but the overall destination is incredible and strong foundations will be built, and your wonderful feeling of wellbeing along the way will positively impact all of those around you that are most important.

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Wednesday, 9th November

If you think of people who changed the world, you may think of Beethoven, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Google founders, Abraham Lincoln, etc.

They seemed one of a kind individuals, producing breathtaking work that would affect their generation in a mind blowing way.

The truth is that they are more normal like the rest of us than you think.

Beethoven for instance gets 6 pieces music into the top 50 of all time classical music. Mozart gets 5 and Bach gets 2.

To put it into context, Beethoven composed 650 pieces in his career, Mozart around 700 and Bach around a 1000, yet they are all remembered for mostly those few works that they are most famous for.

Do we say that they should have only concentrated on the half dozen that were any good? Do we say the other 643 or so were useless and not worth bothering with? The facts were they never knew which ones would be great as they toiled endlessly over them. It was up to the audience to decide.

Steve Jobs initially was sacked by Apple, had many failures in between until he struck it big second time around with Apple. Bill gates had many ups and downs before proving himself with Microsoft and breaking down doors in software world, Google initially wanted to sell the company for $2 million after some initial success but nobody wanted to buy it.

Abraham Lincoln was one of the biggest down, down, down and then up political stories in history, and the trend goes on.

One thing they had all in common. They all put a lot of work in, got a lot of it out to the public, many of it discarded, but on a couple of things they struck gold. They never gave up.

Research shows us unless you are willing to put the work in continuously, be able to accept some of your efforts may not work every time, then you are highly unlikely to achieve success with anything.

Science helps us train much smarter now and results can be achieved a lot quicker, but unless you have an attitude of getting continuously better, progress will stall and your hunger to get better will disappear.

I notice that through training people for many years, the ones that ALWAYS succeed are the ones who develop a high work ethic. They will be with you for training no matter what, dark cold wet nights, they will be there.

They hate it when they are ill, they can’t wait to get stuck in again and feel amazing because they know it’s all about feeling good.

If you are willing to show up regularly, keep putting the work in whatever field you are in, then great things will eventually happen as long as you learn from your mistakes, continually research that what you are doing has strong foundations, and be willing to work as hard, if not harder than anyone else.

It is said to master something it takes 10,000 hours of intense practice, or 10 years in every day language. Most are not prepared to put that work in, but if you do, incredible things are indeed possible.

Keep putting the work in, you will be judged for your life’s work right at the end, in the meantime enjoy following your passion, keep shipping your work and efforts out to the world, surround yourself with positive people and never let anyone put you off.

Everyone has something in them that makes them original, EVERYONE has that unique talent that sets them apart. Your hard work ethic will soon discover it, use it to help people and change your own world and others for the better.

Twitt